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Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) is one of the two most prevalent Internet standard protocols for e-mail retrieval, the other being the Post Office Protocol (POP). Virtually all modern e-mail clients and mail servers support both protocols as a means of transferring e-mail messages from a ...

Microsoft just launched a revamped Hotmail under the name Outlook.com. It looks great and I'm thinking of migrating from Gmail, but I can't find anywhere whether Outlook.com supports IMAP or some sort ...

When you enable IMAP access in Gmail the [imap]/Drafts, [imap]/Sent and [imap]/Trash labels are created. How do these labels function given that each IMAP client can potentially implement their local ...

My inbox is being destroyed right now—I'm getting 3–4 messages a minute from a specific host (box432.bluehost.com) for some reason. I would really like to just prevent any and all email from his host ...

I am migrating my current self hosted IMAP mail server (hMailServer) to Google Apps.
I managed to move an account's "sent" folder to Gmail using Thunderbird drag and drop, and while it seems to keep ...

Here's my situation. I currently operate a small consulting business out of my home. I have Outlook configured as a POP3 client, downloading all the recent emails from my ISP the moment it's opened. ...

I use gmail POP with Mail.app on a Mac. It works well for me, and with seven years of emails in it I don't want to change. It's my main place for email and a backup of gmail as well.
I've now got an ...

I have my work webmail that only offers IMAP access, no forwarding. I want to fetch it using Gmail, which, I already know, doesn't support fetching mail from IMAP accounts. Only POP3.
I've read other ...

I'm using Gmail to read mail from a couple of other accounts that I've got, I've just added the accounts in the Gmail settings under 'Accounts and import'. But I haven't found the ability to add IMAP ...

I need to implement a Gmail filter that automatically moves a mail to another folder (not the inbox) if the Priority Inbox decided that it's not important. I saw there is an API for developing gadgets ...

I like the new inbox tabs feature on gmail, but it's only useful on the web interface, if I use a mail client like Thunderbird I can't see the tabs. There's any way to give all the messages in tabs an ...

I just set up a new desktop client for Gmail (Sparrow), and it is showing some older messages as new. I've emailed them, but still waiting for a response.
Is it common for IMAP to get some time stamp ...

I have a personal email account run by my webhosting company on my domain and the provided web interface sucks. Is there a way to use GMail as a front end to my IMAP mail hosted on my domain? I want ...

I use getmail to IMAP check my gmail.
It works great, but the bigger my INBOX is, the longer each check takes.
I can set "delete = true" in getmail, but I like having the mail
backed up on gmail. I ...

I have an email that imports via POP3 mail from a server but doesn't a leave a copy in the server. Now I need to import all the mails I got via that POP3 to a new Gmail account, I have some personal ...

I delete lots of emails sent and received as I go along (in Apple Mail, rather than web mail) to save disk clutter and especially to reduce the number of duplicate images that come up in a search.
I ...

I need to export out emails from Gmail to an Outlook PST file and it seems slow using this method—Outlook and IMAP/POP3 are kinda slow on archiving.
Is there any other method than going through POP3 ...

Want to open in my gmail email account, but can't.
I've set up a new gmail account for a friend on my computer and now every time i go to my gmail account, my friends login details comes up instead.
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